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of the Old Testament may be accepted with implicit confidence.”— Prof. Edward Hull, F. R. S. “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.” A soldier of the English army declared that they could place a proc lamation given to them in the hands of every soul in the world inside of eighteen months. The Church of Christ has failed to do it in eighteen hundred years. But the happy sign is that she is waking up to the consciousness that she can do it. I asked a young woman to teach a Sun day-school class, and she said, “ I don’t dare undertake such a responsible task.” I an swered here, “When God is so manifestly calling you, you should say, ‘I don’t dare not to undertake such a responsible task.’ ” We hear too much about the responsibility of working for God, but too little about the graver responsibility of refusing to work for him. A newspaper editor in St. Louis said to a minister friend quite recently,. “I often wonder why other Christians don’t talk to me about these things. Sometimes my eyes are blurred with tears in the instensity of the longing of my heart as I read the pages before me.” Men were never readier to speak and hear of the Christian life than they are today. Business and professional men in unusual numbers are' consecrating them selves to the great work of the kingdom. Let us not hesitate to speak to men. “ T h e doctrine of salvation is not, and cannot be learned from science—it is a mat ter of faith, and as such is beyond the reach of scientific manifestation; but there is no' more reason to doubt of its truth from the story as we read of it, than there is that George I lived and died. If there is a Supreme Intelligence, as I believe sci ence teaches there is, the mystery of the Atonement is no greater mystery than many other matters which we cannot explain.”— Sir William de Abney.
Y es , he, “ the ruler o f the feast,” Might drink the sparkling wine, But they “which drew the water knew” The miracle Divine.
And it was then, and ever is, That they who serve shall see The glory and the beauty of Life’s wondrous mystery.
W e are wayfaring men hurrying through this Vanity Fair. The men of the fair cry, “ BuyJ Buy!” but they have no wares we care to purchase.—C. H. Spurgeon. W illiam J. B ryan says, epigrammati- cally, “The man who tries to keep a book account of the good he does never does enough good to pay for the binding of the book.” Unconsciousness is one of the most attractive qualities about goodness. The saint remembers his sins and forgets his good deeds. A soldier in the Civil War had lost his place in his company, and rather timidly said to General Sherman as he came up behind the line, “Where shall I step in?” “ Step in?” said the general, “ step in? Step in anywhere. There is fighting all along this line.”» And that is precisely true of the great battlefield to which you and I belong. A m a n once said to his pastor: “ I de rive no benefit from prayer.” The pastor had heard some of this man’s prayers, and had noticed they had centered around self, so he said: “ Pray, ‘Father, glorify Thy self,’ and you will soon see some effects from' your prayers.” The purpose of all true praying should be the glorifying of “our Father which art in heaven.” “As regards the truth and authenticity of the historical books of the Bible—every day’s discovery tends to confirm them, and recent investigations in Egypt, Palestine and other eastern countries have shown how, even in minor details, the documents
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